Category Opinion

Opinion: Seventy-five workers at Oji’s Penrose pulp mill and a further 230 at Winstone Pulp International’s two Central North Island mills will remember August 2024: the month wholesale electricity prices quadrupled, the month their employer began consultation on likely closures…

When federal public service unions recently threatened a summer of discontent, it would have been easy pickings for Justin Trudeau to clear his throat and deliver a heartfelt “fuddle duddle” for and on behalf of hard-pressed Canadian voters. It wasn’t…